[Originally posted on NeuroTribes on Oct 28, 2011] One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to

A crumbling papyrus from ancient Egypt records the first cancer diagnosis in history. While Imhotep — poet, philosopher, and physician to the pharaohs — touted all manner of remedies for burns, wounds, and neurological ailments,

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